Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Sample conversion tools
From: Sebastien Metrot (meeloo_AT_noos.fr)
Date: Tue Jun 04 2002 - 11:18:58 EEST
[My view is biased as Bernard Chavonnet, CDXtract's author, is one of my
friends and I even helped him on some issues for the Mac port & some win32
programming...]
That said I really think it is vastly superior to Translator! Translator is
badly written in Visual Basic, crashes all the time, doesn't do half the
translation rights (their roland deemphasis is just plain wrong... seems
like they never tested with an impulse test signal...) and clearly they
make false advertising claims on their home page: they list all the existing
sampler formats and write in very little fonts that they don't support
them....
CDXtract is THE standard tool used by pros in all the world, its convertion
engine have been licensed to some big names software production houses (its
at the heart of Halion from steinberg...)
Concerning a linux port I know Bernard is not directly opposed to it but:
- CDXtract is his main source of income, it's a fulltime job for him, going
opensource is probably not an option at the moment.
- He is just finishing the mac port which proved to be quite long and
tiresome (as always with the mac)
- He may want to move to some new developpements after the next release...
Please take a look at www.cdxtract.com for yourself.
Sebastien
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Davis" <pbd_AT_op.net>
To: <linux-audio-dev_AT_music.columbia.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 3:01 AM
Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Sample conversion tools
> >libsndfile (http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile/) provides an
> >excellent simple API for addressing data, and read/write in
> >short/int/float/double (virtualised, ie. independant of what's on-disk).
> >Although it doesn't give explicit support for file properties it would
> >probably be trivial to add (via the existing sf_command() interface;
Erik?)
>
> i'm a huge fan of libsndfile (its so much better than the SGI inspired
> API that does the same thing). but to be honest, sampler patches
> aren't in libsndfile's domain. these patches come with all kinds of
> information in addition to the actual audio data, and libsndfile
> doesn't offer a coherent way of accessing it. keymapping, layer specs,
> filter and FX parameters, etc etc.
>
> in fact, what i really want to encourage anyone interested in this
> stuff to do is this:
>
> * look up Chicken Systems "translator" program for windows
> * try it out under wine
> * try it out under vmware or bochs
> * write us (and the author) and tell us if it works
> * ask the author to seriously consider a linux version if
> it doesn't work under wine.
>
> translator does *so* much stuff, and it seems pointless to redo it
> unless strictly necessary. i talked with him a year or two ago, and he
> seemed interested in the idea of it running on linux but without the
> time, knowledge or energy to make it happen.
>
> --p
>
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